One Day

Resin, wood, photographic transparency, light

One Day captures a single day's journey through Gowanus, unfolding a memory of the neighborhood as it existed on March 13, 2019. Drawn to this industrial area, I photographed scenes of urban life—delivery workers on bikes, people gathered in quiet exchanges, sex workers arranging plans, and families emerging from the subway. These images are printed on transparent paper, embedded in layers of resin, then chiseled and stacked, with light illuminating through the images.

Viewed from above, the stacked layers compress these images into a singe poem—a visual representation of city life. Like ancient hieroglyphs etched into stone, or embers glowing in a long-forgotten fire, the individual stories merge into an encapsulated memory. One Day shows how a lived experience can be compressed and how ordinary moments accumulate to form the history of a place.